Study Desk

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

They are enthusiastic about you, but not for any good. Instead, they want to isolate you so you will be enthusiastic about them.

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don't do what you want.

Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so you also won't be tempted.

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up.

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

not from works, so that no one can boast.

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called "the uncircumcised" by those called "the circumcised," which is done in the flesh by human hands.

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God's household,

This is so God's multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

and to know the Messiah's love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.